The Bund

Considering that the most complete and the closest unity of the struggling proletariat is absolutely necessary both for the purpose of achieving its ultimate goal as speedily as possible and in the interests of the consistent conduct of political and economic struggle on the basis of existing society;

– that in particular the complete unity of Jewish and non-Jewish proletariat is especially necessary moreover for the successful struggle against antisemitism, that vile fanning of racial peculiarity and national hatred, perpetrated by the government and the exploiting classes;

– that the complete fusion of social-democratic organizations of Jewish and non-Jewish proletariat can in no way whatsoever and in nothing restrict the autonomy of our Jewish comrades in conducting propaganda and agitation in one language or another, in publishing literature corresponding to the needs of the given local or national movement, in putting forward such slogans of agitation and immediate political struggle as would represent an application and development of the general and fundamental provisions of the social-democratic program concerning complete equality of rights and complete freedom of language, national culture, and so forth and so forth;

– the congress resolutely rejects the federative principle of organization of the Russian Party and confirms the organizational principle laid down as the basis of the 1898 statute, that is, the autonomy of national social-democratic organizations in matters concerning…[61]